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Board Beginners & Help
Re: Preview build of our new client (only for the adventurous!)
by
allbitcoin
on 20/06/2011, 20:40:23 UTC
I agree im a person with a considerable amount of computer knowledge but i dont know windows programming so i would absolutly not use this with out a reputable programmer confirming this source code is safe.

Im sure you mean well, but its just hard to trust executables from newbs at this point im time.

I agree and wholeheartedly support this sentiment.

We hope to earn people's trust over time (by actually being trustworthy). We are planning a code signing system in the future - a combination of code and procedure to ensure safe, verifiable binaries. It's a tricky problem and until we figured it out we don't want to give the impression that a random binary is safe - whether from a newcomer or a trusted source.

I build all my Bitcoin related programs from source and carefully check the diffs. This is sadly not an option for the vast majority of people out there.